Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III
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The Sultan of Sokoto has blamed the spate of killings in the north on government’s inability to discharge its obligation to protect citizens.
“If you see such thing happening, then there must be a failure of government. But if government wakes up to its responsibility, some of these things will not happen,” said His Eminence Alhaji Abubakar Saad III at the General Assembly of the Northern Traditional Rulers Council held in Kaduna yesterday.
The Sultan, who is chairman of the council, regretted: “We have seen how innocent people have been killed, innocent children two years old, pregnant women and children brought out of their mothers’ wombs. These are the issues we are saying we will never stop talking about until our political leaders take the responsibility and help us out.
Sultan blames killings on failure of government
